Cornerstone Companions Service Dogs

09/09/2026

09/09/2026

Our three-month Self-Train Service Dog Program includes 12 weeks of professional instruction designed to help you build the skills, confidence, and partnership needed for service-dog work.
Your customized program may include:
🐾 Foundational and advanced obedience
🐾 Focus and engagement
🐾 Leash manners and a reliable heel
🐾 Public-access preparation
🐾 Disability-related task training
🐾 Real-world practice
🐾 Troubleshooting and handler education
Program investment: $3,000
Payment plan: Three payments of $1,100
Initial assessment: $250
Not every dog is suited for service work. The assessment helps us evaluate your dog’s temperament, current skills, health considerations, and potential for the program.
COMMENT OR DM ✨”SELF TRAIN”✨ to schedule your assessment or receive more information.
Cornerstone Companions Service Dogs
Training dogs. Empowering people. Changing lives. 🩵🐾
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09/08/2026

Want to self-train a service dog but don’t have a pup of your own? That’s no problem! 🐕‍🦺

We have dogs of different ages, breeds, and backgrounds—including wonderful rescue dogs—available to be matched with the right person. Whether you’re looking for a potential service-dog candidate to train through our owner-training program or a professionally trained companion pet, we can help you find the right fit.

You don’t have to be local, either! Personalized training sessions are available remotely through Zoom.

Reach out today to learn about our available dogs and find out which option may be right for you. 🩵🐾

DM ✨”SELF TRAIN”✨ to get started!

Cornerstone Companions Service Dogs

09/08/2026

Could your dog have what it takes to become your service dog? 🐕‍🦺

You don’t have to navigate the training process alone.

Our three-month Self-Train Service Dog Program includes 12 weeks of professional instruction designed to help you build the skills, confidence, and partnership needed for service-dog work.

Your customized program may include:

🐾 Foundational and advanced obedience
🐾 Focus and engagement
🐾 Leash manners and a reliable heel
🐾 Public-access preparation
🐾 Disability-related task training
🐾 Real-world practice
🐾 Troubleshooting and handler education

Program investment: $3,000
Payment plan: Three payments of $1,100
Initial assessment: $250

Not every dog is suited for service work. The assessment helps us evaluate your dog’s temperament, current skills, health considerations, and potential for the program.

DM **SELF TRAIN** to schedule your assessment or receive more information.

Cornerstone Companions Service Dogs
Training dogs. Empowering people. Changing lives. 🩵🐾

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09/03/2026

We were recently invited to do a demonstration on Service dogs at an elementary school. I love brightening peoples day by bringing our dogs by and also educating them on the difference between Service Dogs and emotional support Dogs as well as proper service dog etiquette and demonstrating a few little things for them after a story that I read. I just love working with Kids and Dogs! Thank you God for this blessing. 💖🐾✨

08/18/2026

🐾 TRAIN YOUR OWN SERVICE DOG🐾

12-Week Owner-Trained Service Dog Program

Do you already have a dog you believe could become your service dog?

Our 12-Week Owner-Trained Service Dog Program 👩‍💻 teaches YOU how to train your dog—from foundational obedience to public-access skills and an individualized task designed to help mitigate your disability.

12-WEEK PROGRAM — $3,000

Includes:
• 12 private, one-hour training sessions
• Weekly homework & training plan
• Service-dog handler education
• Real-world public-access training
• Mock Public Access Test
• Final Public Access Test
• One individualized disability-mitigating task

Payment Options:
$3,000 program price
or *3 monthly payments of $1100*

⭐Initial Service Dog Suitability Evaluation: $250

Every dog is evaluated before acceptance into the program to help determine temperament, behavior and suitability for service work.

Need more time?
Advanced training packages, additional task training and continued public-access training are also available.

🐾 **IMPORTANT:** Service dogs aren’t made by a vest or certificate. They’re made through training, reliability, appropriate public behavior and individually trained work or tasks.

Completion of 12 weeks does not guarantee that every dog will be ready to graduate. Dogs progress at different rates, and our priority is developing **safe, reliable and confident service-dog teams.**

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Rescue • Train • Serve

📩 DM us for an evaluation or program information.**

Limited enrollment available.

03/16/2026

⚠️ Most people have no idea what a real medical alert service dog actually does during a seizure…
What you’re seeing isn’t random behavior.
It’s carefully sequenced training — where individual skills are taught separately and then chained together into a life-saving response.
This is not just one behavior. This is a trained sequence.
What you’re watching is called behavior chaining in service dog training.
Rather than teaching one large task, we break the response down into individual skills and then link them together so the dog performs them in the correct order when it matters most.
The sequence looks like this:
1️⃣ Alert / Notice Change
The dog learns to recognize subtle changes in the handler’s scent, movement, or behavior that can indicate a seizure is about to occur.
2️⃣ Protective Placement
The dog is trained to move into position to help protect the handler’s head and body during loss of muscle control or thrashing.
3️⃣ Duration Behavior (Stay & Monitor)
The dog remains calm and present while the seizure runs its course.
4️⃣ Retrieval Task
The dog retrieves an emergency vest containing medication 💊 and a phone 📲 to call for help if needed.
5️⃣ Deep Pressure Therapy
The final behavior in the chain helps regulate breathing, reduce confusion, and provide grounding while the handler regains awareness.
Each task is first trained individually and reinforced heavily.
Then we begin linking the behaviors together so the completion of one behavior becomes the cue for the next behavior in the sequence.
Over time the dog learns the entire chain:
Alert → Protect → Stay → Retrieve → Ground
This is how complex medical response behaviors are built in service dogs.
Not tricks.
Not guesswork.
Intentional training designed to protect someone’s life. 🐾

03/07/2026

Field Trip Day ☕️🐶
One of the most important parts of training future service dogs is real-world exposure.
Today the dogs went on a little field trip to Starbucks to practice:
• Calm behavior in public
• Ignoring distractions
• Settling around people and food
• Polite greetings
Public environments like coffee shops are great places for dogs to learn how to stay focused while the world moves around them.
And yes… there may have been a pup cup involved. 😉
Every outing helps build confidence and prepares these dogs for the important jobs ahead.

03/05/2026

I would like to make a formal statement.
I was left completely unsupervised.
The cardboard attacked first.
I bravely defended the house from this dangerous packaging material.
I regret nothing.
In conclusion, I believe I deserve a treat for my heroic efforts.
Thank you for coming to my press conference.
– Management 🐾

03/04/2026

Three new hearts joined the Cornerstone Companions family this week — and we couldn’t be more grateful to welcome them. 🐾
Meet Winston, Callie, and Radio.

Each one of these beautiful souls came to us with their own story, their own past, and their own chance at a brighter future. While we may not know every chapter of where they’ve been, we know where they’re headed — toward healing, stability, purpose, and love.

Winston is already showing us his thoughtful, gentle nature. There’s a quiet intelligence behind his eyes that tells us he’s been watching the world closely. We’re excited to see him settle in and begin his journey.

Callie has a sweet spirit and a soft presence that melts hearts instantly. She’s curious, affectionate, and already soaking up the safety and calm that rescue dogs so deeply deserve.

And then there’s Radio — whose personality is already starting to turn the volume up around here. Every rescue group needs a little character, and Radio seems ready to fill that role perfectly.

Over the coming weeks we’ll be getting to know them better — evaluating their temperaments, helping them decompress, and seeing where their paths may lead. Some dogs become incredible companions, and others go on to serve an even bigger purpose as service dogs.

No matter their destination, every dog that comes through our doors matters.

Rescue is not just about saving a dog.
It’s about restoring trust, rebuilding confidence, and giving them the chance to become who they were always meant to be.

Welcome to the family, Winston, Callie, and Radio. ❤️🐾

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